Nixon called Indira Gandhi an old witch (not too far from the truth, but I digress), and when the Indians were beating the crap out of Pakistan in the 1971 war, Kissinger tried to persuade China to invade India.

My mother accompanied Indira Gandhi on the infamous trip to Washington in 1971 and she has long maintained that Indira hated Nixon just as much as he disliked her. Also, Indira had been made aware about Nixon's "witch" comment through some means (although I believe she understood it was "bitch" rather than "witch") which didn't really help things back in those days.

Well, time for the RSS or similar to drag out the mobs and hold a demonstration in front of the US Embassy again.

Quoting Dvk (Reply 3):Why am I having visions of Baba Wawa saying "Tell me, Mrs. Gandhi, why do you have a pimento in your forehead?"

There was an even funnier episode on SNL where Lorraine Newman played Mrs Gandhi. It poked fun at the State of Emergency imposed by Mrs Gandhi. John Belushi played Sanjay Gandhi, her thuggish son. In the skit, all he did was read comic books, but was destroyed in the end by a giant cow that falls from the sky on his head.

maybe it was a bigger deal back in the 1970's, but calling someone a bitch doesn't seem to raise eyebrows anymore. That term gets thrown around so much people hardly even notice it. So, Nixon calling Indira that word doesn't seem like a big deal. At least compared to some of Nixon's other actions.